[peel] Re: Friday Rock Show with Tommy Vance

[John Cavanagh]

I've just picked up on this thread, having left this e-mail address unchecked for a while. The show with Derek Jewell on Radio 3 was Sounds Interesting and it ran from 1972 until '79. At the end of each 40 minute show, the presentation announcer would credit Derek as "Jazz and Popular Music Critic of the Sunday Times". That the show was decommissioned during the big Sunday Times strike may have been more than coincidence, as it was, essentially, an audio version of Jewell's weekly column.
To casr Jewell as basically a jazz and easy listening enthusiast undersells him somewhat. Yes, he wrote books on Duke Ellington & Frank Sinatra, but he was also a champion of avant garde music. Sounds Interesting certainly had a fondness for prog, but as a small boy who got Peel though the week and Fluff on a Saturday afternoon, Sunday nights with Derek Jewell were indeed interesting, as he featured everything from Alan Stivell's Breton harp to the Damned: yes, punk on Radio 3!
I must say, I thought of Derek's broadening of the output in the '90s when I managed to air both Nirvana and the Almighty on Radio 3. I'd like to think he would've approved!!

  All good wishes, J.C. 


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